Hoist-cable guide



Aug. 19 1924. 1,505,253

c. F. G ERNERT f HOIST CABLE GUIDE Filed Jan. 14 1924 lill-5222A Patented Aug. I9, i924.,

CHESTER l?. GERNERT, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR T READING CHAIN BLOCK CORPORATION, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA, .A CORPORATION 0F PENN- SYLVANIA.

HOIST-CABLE GUIDE.

Application filed January 14, 1924, Serial N'o. 685,979.

T 0 all whom t may con cera:

Be it known that I, CHESTER F. GERNERT,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Reading, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hoist-Cable Guides, of which the following is a specifi cation.

This invention relates to improvements in cable guides, and the object in the present instance is to provide a guide for a. hoist cable that will serve to keep the cable in line as it approaches the drum to be wound thereon.

The particular feature of the present invention is to provide a guide that may be placed in position without removing the cable from the drum or other portion of the mechanism, and I accomplish this by malring the guide in two parts, one of which consists of a loop member capable of being easily and rapidly removed from the body portion, and which may be slipped over the cable and then secured in position again, with the cable passing through the loop and in proper alinement for winding.

The invention is more fully described in. the following` specilication and clearly illus trated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure l is a side elevation of the guide.

Figure Q is a front elevation thereof.

Figure 3 is a plan view thereof.

Figure a shows the guide loop in. detail.

The numeral l designates the body of the guide, which comprises a metal plate having its upper end bent at an angle to provide means for securing it in position.

The lower extremity of the body is formed with a centrally disposed lug` 3, formed by bending a portion of the body out of the vertical line, preferably with a die.

The numeral 5 designates the cable loop, through which the cable passes and which acts as -a guide therefor.

This loop member is made of metal and bent to the forni of an approximate oval,r but with a space left open between the ends thereof, as indicatedl at 6. This loop por-' In use, the loop is placed labout the cable,

while the cable is suspended from the hoist drum, and then attached to the body portion of the guide l by means of a pair of bolts 7.

' Any slight adjustment that may be desired in the vertical alinenient of the cable, may be secured by tilting the body member l on its supporting angled end 2.

It will be noted that the guide loop may be made of different sizes, to accommodate different size cables, and that it will not be necessary to remove the guide proper, but merely to remove the loop portion and replace it with one of the desired size.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim zv l. A guide for hoist cables comprising a vertical body having an angled upper end and a lug formed on its lower end and centrally disposed, in combination with aremovable loop member formed with an open space to accommodate the lug, and means for securing the loop member to the body.

2. In a cable guide, al iiat metal body having its upper end bent at an angle thereto and formed with a centrally disposed lug at its lowery extremity; a guidev loop of substantially oval contour and having an open space in one portion thereof adapted to accommodate said lug, and means for securing the loop member to the body member.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature.

CHESTER F. GERNERT. 

